Box 5
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Box 5
Series 1 includes personal and professional correspondence, lectures and notes relating to his research on Virginia history, and material relating to his community activities in Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence of his wife Estelle (Dinwiddie) Morton, land grants, 1756 and 1774, signed by Robert Dinwiddie and Lord Dunmore, Confederate currency and bonds, genealogical materials on the Watkins and Morton families and photographs.
Notes on Virginia hisory from various 17th, 18th and 19th century private papers
Notes on of Virginia officials, Virginia religion, Indians, diary of Reverend Robert Rose, Gooch Papers Act Preventing Negro Insurrection, Cal. State Papers, force tracts, notes from Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia". 1607-1756. 1 item.
Journal references, articles, reviews, notes, bibliogaphy on Virginia history
Journal references to notable Virginians, review of Adrienne Koch's "Jefferson and Madison, notes on social history, notes on Reverend Robert Rose's diary, lists of useful books on Virginia history, articles "Senate Race Getting Milder", "An 1808 Tour of Virginia is Delightful," "Governor's message, notes on manufactureres, internal improvements. 1748-1869, 1881, 1926, 1943, 1952. 2 items.
Virginia in the 1850s
Notes on Virginia history, message of Governor Johnson, adoption of the 1851 Constituion, Virginia agriculture, Virginia on the eve of the Civil War. 1851-1857. 1 item.
Virginia economic development secession sentiment, agricultural progress, demography of population, transportation
Virginia on the Eve of the Southern War for Independence." 1830-1860. 1 item.
Articles relating to Virginia history
The Press in the Making of Virginia, "Ephraim McDowell," "The Newspaper Press and the Civil War in West Virginis," "A Confederate Catechism," "The Supreme Court of the Confederacy," "The Rise of the High School in Virginia," notes on the Reconstruction, photos of Virginia, "The Voting Status of Negroes in Virginia," 1929, 1931, 1934, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1958. 1 item.
Coming of Sumner, John Brown's raid.
1856, 1859-1861.
Virginia agriculture
Improvements and implements, organization and education, Southern dependence, products. 1850-1854, 1857. 2 items.
Banking in Virginia
Documents, messages, dispatches. 1851-1858, 1860-1861. 1 item.
J.H. Cocke.
1856, 1860-1861. 1 item.
Virginia churches
Schisms, new buildings. 1851, 1855, 1857, 1861. 1 item.
Emigrants to California.
1850. 1 item.
Virginia in the Civil War
John Boran bibliography, the martial spirit, secession and war, military and governmental events of the Civil War. 1850-1865. 2 items.
Virginia foreign commerce
Proposed steamship line to Europe, exports, development of the carrying trade, Norfolk harbor commerce, dispatches, Virginia Commerce Convention, direct foreign trade. 1806, 1850-1852, 1856-1860. 1 item.
Virginia Constitutional Convention
Participants, resolutions, issues, notes. 1849, 1850-1852, 1854, 1858, 1861. 1 item.
Virginia dueling.
'Pistols and Coffee at Dawn for Two." notes. 1856, 1858, 1934. 2 items.
Virginia education, colleges.
- 'A study of Three Virginia Colleges, Part 1 Before the Civil War - bibliography, 'Higher Education for Women Before 1860.' 1953. 2 items.
A Trewe Relacyon' - Virginia from 1609 to 1612.
Series 1 includes personal and professional correspondence, lectures and notes relating to his research on Virginia history, and material relating to his community activities in Williamsburg, Va. Includes correspondence of his wife Estelle (Dinwiddie) Morton, land grants, 1756 and 1774, signed by Robert Dinwiddie and Lord Dunmore, Confederate currency and bonds, genealogical materials on the Watkins and Morton families and photographs.
Education - Free schools
Free schools - dispatches 'Primary Education in Virginia After the Civil War - outline and bibliography, miscellaneous notes, 'Poor Relief Education', 'State Obtains Mercer Sketch.', 'Governor's Message and Annual Reports,' abstract of School Commisssioner's report. 1818-1847, 1849, 1850-1855, 1858-1859, 1901, 1957. 2 items.
Election of 1860 - Stephen A. Douglas, Rd. D. Dispatches
1860-1861. 1 item.
Virginia and European immigrants
Ell Thayer's scheme for immigrant aid, Rd. D. dispatches, misc. notes, letter concerning Ell Thayer. 1852, 1857, 1860, 1938. 1 item.
Internal improvements
Lists of railroad documents, proposed railroad lines, misc. notes, abstracts of railroad documents, construction of railroad lines, frequent wrecks on railroads, Roanoke Railroad, governor's messages, Southern Railroad, telegraph, 'The Louisa Railroad.' 1849, 1851-1861, 1866. 3 items.
Internal improvements
'Virginia State Debt and Internal Improvements, 1820-1838, James River and Kanawha company, travel on the richmond - Lynchburg canal boat packet, map of Virginia's railroads, general internal improvements, highways. 1820-1838, 1840-1848, 1851, 1859-1879. 8 items.
Federal relations
Baptist's divided message of Governor Joseph Johnson, bibliography on 'The Trial and Execution of John Brown.' 1852, 1857. 3 items.
Virginia Criminal Code
'A Letter Opposing Public Hangings,' 'Two Negroes Hung For Murder in Culpeper,' public hanging, prive executions, imprisonment, changes in criminal and civil codes. 1834, 1846, 1848, 1849-1850, 1851, 1853, 1858, 1860. 1 item.